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PhantomTollbooth 2014 First Half Picks in Music and Movies

Phantom Tollbooth picks 2014 Pointing you to the most interesting music and movie releases from the first half of 2014.

Donnie McClurkin Presents Camdon Music Artists at BB King's

A COVER IMAGE 90 copy Donnie McClurkin introduces a new label and two dynamic artists - Andrea McClurkin-Mellini and Nancey Jackson Johnson - at BB King's in NYC...

Lucy

lucy The new sci-fi action flick Lucy easily breaks the mold of conventional non-conventional films.

Planes: Fire & Rescue

planesfirerescue The Cars/Planes franchise soars high with the latest installment of Planes: Fire & Rescue.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

dawnoftheplanetoftheapes One of the fondest movie memories from my childhood in the late 70’s is walking to the small theater in our town and watching all the Planet of the Apes films.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Transformers Age of Extinction movie poster. Extinction? Not!

Sassi, Yossi - Desert Butterflies

Yossi Sassi - Desert Butterflies album cover as reviewed on The Phantom Tollbooth Desert Butterflies has all the elements of music that I love: inventive use of themes, blurring of genre lines, technical performance, attentiveness to melody, and solid performance. The pioneer of "Oriental Rock," Yossi Sassi delivers a memorable sophomore album.

Trout, Walter - The Blues Came Callin'

pick-of-the-month Walter Trout might be swimming upstream these days, but The Blues Came Callin' is a fine catch for blues fans everywhere.

Haworth, Bryn - Time Out (Walker)

Bryn Haworth Time Out, pick-of-the-month If I were in jail, I'd want access to this collection. So might anyone who wants some encouragement in a tough situation. There are no standouts, because the quality is so consistently strong thoughout, as we have come to expect from Haworth.

Soup - The Beauty of Our Youth

Soup - The Beauty of Our Youth album cover as reviewed on The Phantom Tollbooth pick-of-the-month Wistful, ambient, and achingly gorgeous, The Beauty of Our Youth is a soundscape of purposeful orchestration, recalling the days of childhood and adolescence in a dreamlike haze of retrospective emotion.

Haworth, Bryn - Time Out (Saraco)

BRYN TIMEOUT pick-of-the-month Haworth handles his guitar work with an effortless elegance. The supporting players perform dutifully. This is down-home, folksy blues, often with a rock edge, played to perfection.